A Novel Embedded System Architecture for Fire Detection Based on Image Processing

Abstract

This paper presents novel logic/software co-work architecture for embedded high definition image processing platform, which is built by the considerations of system level, board hardware level, and the tasks partition between CPU processing and programmable logic based on the latest launched System on Chip Field Programmable Gate Array (Soc FPGA) – Xilinx ZC7020. For this case, we comprehensive analyze of the critical data paths: the uniform Advanced Extensible Interface (AXI) processing between processing system (PS) and processing logic (PL), including high definition video pass through PL to PS and PS software processing send to PL for speed up. We have included the transplant of opensource Linux, multiprocessing cooperative control and boot loader in PS side. Since the general platform is proposed, a fire detection approach based on high definition image processing is implemented. Experiment results indicated the feasibility and universality of the embedded system architecture.